Alon’s book is the ideal counterargument to the idea that organisms are inherently human-opaque: it directly demonstrates the human-understandable structures which comprise real biological systems.

A good book. Everything is clearly illustrated and presented. It’s easy to follow a tough subject.

Praise for the first edition.

The author succeeds in explaining in an intellectually exciting way what the cell does and what degrees of freedom enable it to function. the author succeeds in explaining in an intellectually exciting way what the cell does and what degrees of freedom enable it to function. An appealing and inspiring overview of biology is what he draws the detailed together into. The training of graduate students in biological physics should include Alon?s book. Nigel Goldenfeld is a professor at the University of Illinois. It’s physics today. June 2007. The work takes an engineering approach to systems biology. He does an excellent job of explaining and motivating engineering models and methods using network-based controls. Eric Werner is from the University of Oxford. Nature. There is a new edition of Vol. The March 29, 2007, edition of 446 was published. I read an elegant book without stopping. The novice who reads this book can move on immediately to research literature, armed with a grasp of the many connections between diverse phenomena, because he perceives and explains so many simple regularities. Philip Nelson is from the University of Pennsylvania. ?? Beyond simply recount recent results, Alon articulates the basic principles underlying biological circuitry at different levels and shows how powerful they can be in understanding the complexity of living cells. This book is essential for anyone who wants to understand how a living cell works. The California Institute of Technology is in Pasadena, USA. Uri Alon offers a highly original perspective on systems biology, emphasizing the function of certain simple networks that appear as ubiquitous building blocks of living matter. Boris Shraiman is from the University of California, Santa Barbara. The book introduces a way of thinking and a field. The principles of stability, robustness and optimal design can be used to analyze and understand the evolution and behavior of living organisms. Even to a naive reader, Alon?s clear intuitive language and helpful examples offer deep mathematical insights into biology. The community has been waiting for this book. Galit Lahav is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.

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There is a person named Uri Alon. He is the systems biology professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

–This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.